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Reputation: 99

How Referrer-Policy header can secure a website?

I'm trying to get my website as secure as possible. I'm reading about headers and I should add a Referrer-Policy. However, I'm not sure to understand how this header can make my website more secure.

To be honest, I'm not sure to know how it works. I think the browser get as referrer the previous link.

My website use HTTP not yet HTTPS and I don't know which referrers should I use. I think the default is Referrer-Policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade, but my website use HTTP so that's useless.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1707

Answers (1)

Benyamin
Benyamin

Reputation: 410

its been a while utile you ask but your best answer is here

and according to this blog its how Referrer-Policy works :

When a user clicks a link on one site, the origin, that takes them to another site, the destination, the destination site receives information about the origin the user came from. This is how we get metrics like those provided by Google Analytics on where our traffic came from. I know that 4,000 users came from Twitter this week because when they visit my site they set the referer[sic] header in their request.

in simple word, it's about users privacy!

Upvotes: 2

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